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Web. Tech. Climate. Canada. StartUps. Electric Vehicles

Toronto
Joined December 2008
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Free books on reliability (from Google SRE): - Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems bit.ly/34hFLEX - The Site Reliability Workbook bit.ly/34hFLEX - Building Secure & Reliable Systems bit.ly/3aPmBZs
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If you want to feel really really small, watch this
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AB and SK are out of step with the rest of the country on climate crisis, and are now shut out of gvt. Solution must be substantial investment in low-carbon economic growth in the West, not reconciliation through continued support for fossil fuel extraction. #elxn43
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Real time speed of global fossil fuel CO₂ emissions with the addition of a second counter following a suggestion by @kevpluck Each box is 10 tonnes of CO₂ #dataviz #globalwarming #ClimateChange
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🔥 One way to make a boring form look more interesting is to draw inspiration from how the output of the form is designed. Here are a few ways you can reuse your existing design decisions to make a form more exciting:
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I find music distracting sometimes, but wearing headphones makes me feel more productive. Maybe its a comfort thing? Or just because the noise is muffled? I sometimes even wear headphones with no music playing🙈 This noise generator is amazing though - noisli.com/
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🔥 Get creative with table design — table cells can contain more than simple unstyled text. Here are a few ways to make tables look more interesting:
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🔥 Styling content can be difficult. Here are a few ideas that can make a big difference:
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Shape Up is a new book published on the web that describes how we build software at Basecamp. The 6-week cycles, scoping the work, budgets instead of estimates, assigning projects not tasks, and forgoing the dreaded backlog. It's all here. basecamp.com/shapeup/
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+BREAKING+ The Guardian's editor has just issued this new guidance to all staff on language to use when writing about climate change and the environment...
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Here's a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. It's eye-opening. instagram.com/p/Bwf080_Bfby/
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What some American cities could look like in the year 2100 may surprise you. See the effects of melting glaciers in our latest immersive mixed reality with Meteorologist @JenCarfagno.
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Replying to @shanselman
I once read a meme, "In the beginning, God and I knew what was what in my code. Now, only God knows."
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